Employees from RSM Tenon have taken on a bold three-way
challenge which will see around 60 participants scale a total of 17
peaks in just 24 hours to raise £10,000 for Cancer Research
UK.
The challenge, named Project Mustard, is for three teams to
simultaneously climb the Welsh 3000's, National Three Peaks and
Snowdon in 24 hours.
All three participating teams will aim to meet at the summit of
Snowdon at 3pm on Saturday 11 June. Here the teams will celebrate
their achievement and the life of Mark Coleman, a friend and
colleague at RSM Tenon, who died of cancer on New Year's Eve
2010.
Mark, who was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2009, died at the
age of 44 in December 2010, leaving behind his wife Gail and three
young children.
Jonathan Reynolds, financial management director at RSM Tenon
and close friend of Mark, said: "There is little in the way of good
that can come from the death of a young man. Mark's family will be
changed forever. However, we felt that as his friends and
colleagues we should try and do whatever we can, so we came up with
Project Mustard. Our goals are to remember and celebrate the life
of our friend Mark Coleman and to raise funds for Cancer Research
UK."
RSM Tenon has received some great support from both national and
local companies. Trekmates and Youth Hostels Association (YHA) have
supplied guides for the teams and two Leicester companies,
Practical Car and Van Rental and Mertrucks, have supplied transport
for the teams.
Many clients and contacts have also shown their support for
Project Mustard - named after Mark and Coleman's Mustard - and have
been generous with donations. They include: CJ Upton and Sons
Limited, Fat Cats and Johns of Nottingham.